Sunday, 4 December 2016

Subject: Re: How will Obama be remembered?

Yes, Michael, I already said that you
are probably correct.

America today (whether left or right,
progressive or reactionary) disagrees with any fact that does not support their
pre-conceived notions. Thus, much of America will disagree with the
indisputable facts I have listed abut Obama below.

Hillary lost because most Americans
cannot stand her as a person.

The Democrats knew this from their
own polls, but ran her anyway.

That was not mere arrogance, it was
hubris.

Trump won because, no matter how
disgusting a pig he is, he was not Hillary. Millions did not care that
he is a nigger-hating, Muslim-baiting, Mexican–bashing, pussy-grabbing, lying
blow-hard bankrupt without a sensible policy to his name – as long as he was
not Hillary.

Millions more were willing to take a
chance on his lack of sensible policies because they knew that Hillary was offering the same old policies that got us nowhere for the past 40 consecutive years.
If Trump’s stated policies were stupid or impossible or just plain lies, voters
reasoned, they couldn’t be any worse than the Democratic policies, which they
knew were mostly lies already.

Obama could not help Hillary because
8 years of his presidency did little to change the source of malaise in our
country: the fact that the rich are getting richer while the middle and working
classes are getting poorer. The feeling of “left behind” does
not stem from inequality of wealth, it stems from inequality of opportunity and
from resentment of a system that is set up to transfer wealth and opportunity
from the less well off to the rich.

Why the left-behind felt that they
might be helped by someone who is on the receiving end of those transfers is
difficult to fathom. But, hey, Hillary is also one of those on the
receiving end, so perhaps that did not figure very strongly in the equation.

Finally, there is foreign policy:
voters can see that America no longer has the power to shape world events
that it once had. Small nations no longer quake at our gun-boats and larger
ones no longer clamber to get onto the bandwagon of whatever we are selling.
Although the rational mind may know that speaking loudly and shaking a big
stick is unlikely to change this, they have seen that neither the voice of
reason nor the surgical application of force have changed it
either. The emotional mind may grasp at straws of hope that the
rational mind knows are unlikely to help.

Anyway: it is what it is and we are
where we are. Now we can only hope that the next four years will not be
the catastrophic disaster I predicted they would be regardless of who won the
election.

So how will Obama be remembered? Certainly as the first
black president. But was that a good thing or a bad thing? Will he
be remembered as all that is wrong with affirmative action or as a failed
president who happened to be black?

Liberals claimed that opposition to Obama was because of race…
that only bigots and racists opposed Obama. The truth is that Obama is
the only president to not have any executive experience prior to being elected
president (no military, no government, and no business). Lawyer is
not executive experience. Legislator is not executive experience.
Community organizer is not executive experience. Professor is not
executive experience. While being president is an executive position.

My opinion is that Obama failed because he is the only
president to lack executive experience. His race was not the issue.
His experience was.

“Bigot” is a word used nowadays by bigots for everyone
who disagrees with them. -- Sir Roger Scruton

When Obama assumed office on January 21, 2008, Democrats
controlled the House and the Senate. Obama toured the world to apologize
for the actions of the USA. Obama did whatever he wanted. Democrats
passed Obamacare without one Republican voting for it, without any compromises
with Republicans. Obama was not inclusive. He did not
compromise. He represented the “alt left.” Since then, Democrats
lost more than 900 state legislative seats, 14 governors, 13 US senate seats,
and 67 US House seats ... more losses to the Democrat party than at any other
time in history.

As the head of the Democrat Party, Obama was a failure.

Since Obama took office, the wealth gap between the rich and poor
grew to its largest since 1930, the stock market increased
more than 100% while net wages for working people decreased, unemployed black
men in inner cities grew to 40%, job participation is at its lowest level of
62% since the Great Depression, 94 million Americans are out of work (more than
any time in history), home ownership is at the lowest percent in 70
years, crime increased dramatically in inner cities, 75% of children born in
inner cities are born out of wedlock (a 500% increase in 40 years), the GDP
only grew 14% in 8 years (the least amount over any 8 year presidential term,
including during the Great Depression) while the national debt increased 100%
(debt increased 7 times faster than GDP revenue) and inflation was 20% (14
- 20 = - 6% loss in purchasing power for the average American), healthcare
costs and insurance doubled, the annual trade deficit increased to $800 billion
per year (5% of GDP), the military became sorely depleted, ISIS,
Benghazi, Afghanistan, US withdrawal from Iraq, Iran deal,
DACA, TPP, WTO, manufacturing left America and took 20 million high
paying manufacturing jobs with it, the USA replaced high paying manufacturing
jobs with low paying service jobs, abortion, late term abortion, black lives
matter vs blue lives and/or all lives, persecution/killings of Christians in
Muslim countries and Africa without any tangible reactions from Obama, and
America is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War. Obama
put globalization ahead of America.

As president of the USA, not the world, Obama was a
failure.

In departure form generations of presidents, Barack and Michelle
campaigned vigorously for Clintonto maintain his
policies, executive orders, and legislation.

Clinton offered more of the same Obama policies while Trump
offered to make America great again. Trump beat Clinton by 306 electoral
votes to 232. The states where Trump beat Clinton represent about 57% of
the population of the USA. While Clinton won the popular vote, Trump won
the actual population 57 to 43. The popular vote was spiked for Clinton
by huge differences in NY and California and Massachusetts. Trump chose
to not campaign in those states and was able to win the presidency by spending
less than a $100 million on his campaign while Clinton spent a billion dollars
(10 to one). Trump did what good businessmen do. He focused on
the markets that mattered. He maximized his investment. He
demonstrated what he will do to make America great again… be a great executive…
maximize USA investments for the USA.

Now, how will Obama be remembered? As all that is wrong
with affirmative action or as a failed president who happened to be
black? You be the judge.

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